Weird colour problem with Real Video and Skype
by mike cloaked
I have a Dell Inspiron 530S desktop with an Nvidia graphics card.
The hardware is at
http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=pub_f3670c10-289f-4e85-804b-60babb27fb23
The machine runs F8 fully up to date and has kmod-nvidia installed.
The desktop is KDE3.5
Almost everything runs well and without any problems - but for a long
time there has been a really awful colour problem when running Real video
and Skype.
Two examples of the problem are on the screenshots at:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=mhvk1t&s=4
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20ggy84&s=4
These were obtained by going to the test page at
http://service.real.com/test/
and running the videos - it does not seem to make any difference installing
a different version of Realplayer.
I have the same setup on a different machine with different hardware and
not running kmod-nvidia and there is no problem with colour with the same
tests.
Flash video on web pages is fine and I am not aware of other colour issues but
I have been unable to fathom out how to fix this problem.
Does anyone have any hints as to what I may do, or a workaround, or
suggestion as to where I might look to fix this?
--
mike
15 years, 7 months
OT: find command permissions: how to exclude dir?
by Dave Burns
I have a cron job that runs 'find /' as root, keeps blowing up when
encountering ~/.gvfs in my home dir. Permissions are set like so:
ls -la ~/.gvfs
total 4
dr-x------ 2 tburns isys 0 2008-10-13 07:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 73 tburns root 4096 2008-10-24 11:49 ..
As owner of dir, no problem:
find /users/tburns ! -name .gvfs |grep gvfs
As root, boom:
sudo find /users/tburns ! -name .gvfs |grep gvfs
[sudo] password for tburns:
find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied
When I create another similar directory, same permissions, root has no
problem with it. But note ***the copy has a different file size
(original size=0, copy size=4096)***:
[tburns@cod ~]$ cp -pr .gvfs .gvfscopy
[tburns@cod ~]$ ls -la .gvfscopy
total 8
dr-x------ 2 tburns isys 4096 2008-10-13 07:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 76 tburns root 4096 2008-10-29 10:56 ..
[tburns@cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns/.gvfscopy
/users/tburns/.gvfscopy
.gvfs is using some secret sauce that I don't understand to prevent
root from accessing it. Is there some ACL stuff going on here?
(getfacl results are boring.) File locking? (lsof says it is not
open.) Corruption? How can it be that root is denied? I wonder what
would happen if I deleted .gvfs and recreated it manually with
identical permissions?
I tried googling gvfs and permissions, got many many irrelevant hits.
Some hits described a similar problem, but always veer off to a
workaround for their specific situation, no general solution. Please
at least give me a hint what to do or what to google for.
My brain hurts!
Dave
15 years, 7 months
madwifi, F9, atheros 5413 cards
by PH mooraa
Hi All,
--
reposting the question on this forum because I think the problem is with
Fedora not madwifi
--
I am trying to use Adhoc mode with AR5413 card (5006 chipset) with following
-
#uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT
2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
There are 2 machines running F9/madwifi and having same cards in adhoc mode.
(livna - madwifi-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386, kmod-madwifi-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
kmod-madwifi-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686-0.9.4-31.lvn9.i686,
madwifi-devel-0.9.4-1.lvn9.i386)
In adhoc mode, they associate with each other (same cell ID) but are not
able to further communicate. ath0 interface created on top of wifi0 does not
receive any packets but wifi0 do receive. I am not able to ping one from
another. routes are set.
#iwconfig
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"wmnad" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.412 GHz Cell: 02:02:6F:51:77:3A
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=46/70 Signal level=-41 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:7069 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
#ifconfig
ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6F:51:77:3A
inet addr:11.11.11.1 Bcast:11.11.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe51:773a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:527 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:23013 (22.4 KiB)
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-02-6F-51-77-3A-F4-AF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:233405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:41464
TX packets:18774 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:33609299 (32.0 MiB) TX bytes:1602695 (1.5 MiB)
On both machines ath0 RX packets remains 0 and I don't know why is this
happening!!! Can someone please help..
I think that there no problems with ath_pci loading as can be seen -
#dmesg
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
..
wlan: 0.9.4
ath_pci: 0.9.4
..
ath_rate_sample: 1.2 (0.9.4)
wifi0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 10.4 phy 6.1 radio 6.3
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdef0000, irq=18
..
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): ath0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ath0: link becomes ready
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
ath0: no IPv6 routers present
My configuration file for interface is like -
#cat ifcfg-ath0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=ath0
HWADDR=00:02:6f:51:77:3a
BOOTPROTO=none
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=11.11.11.1
DOMAIN=
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
IPV6INIT=no
ESSID=cwmnad
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Ad-Hoc
RATE=auto
ENCRYPTION=off
SECURITYMODE=off
IWPRIV="authmode 1"
In last 3 lines, I overdid security because initially I thought the problem
is due to authentication. I don't want any security at this point.
[ Other tests -
- the same card works in managed mode and connects to my building's WLAN AP.
This makes me wonder more what I doing wrong.
- same cards with madwifi 0.9.4 works on Ubuntu in ad-hoc mode which shows
that something in Fodora is going wrong. I really like F9 and really don't
want to switch to ubuntu. ]
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
phm
15 years, 7 months
Firefox not opening from Thunderbird links: error launching default action command
by R. G. Newbury
Firefox 3 was hanging on certain websites. I downgraded to Fedora 2.0.17
. Now when I click on a link in a Thunderbird email I get a box with the
error message:
Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action
command associated with this location.
Can anyone tell me how/where to fix the 'default action command'?
Geoff
15 years, 7 months
Can't load cpuspeed
by Boggiano
Hi all,
I can't run cpuspeed on my wife's notebook:it's a Acer Aspire 3630 and
it use a Intel Celeron CPU.
FC8 and kernel 2.6.26.6-49.fc8.
I even can't load the acpi_cpufreq module, this is the error message:
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
(/lib/modules/2.6.26.6-49.fc8/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko):
No such device
And BTW, what is the correct value I have to in the file
/etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed in the line DRIVER ?
I put down here some info, please let me know if you need others.
Thanks
Ale
>cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1600.097
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts
bogomips : 3201.58
clflush size : 64
power management:
>cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling
state count: 8
active state: T0
state available: T0 to T7
states:
*T0: 100%
T1: 87%
T2: 75%
T3: 62%
T4: 50%
T5: 37%
T6: 25%
T7: 12%
>dmesg |grep -i cpu
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
PAT disabled. Not yet verified on this CPU type.
ACPI: SSDT 3BDF64B2, 01FB (r1 PmRef CpuPm 3000 INTL 20030224)
SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
PERCPU: Allocating 41384 bytes of per cpu data
NR_CPUS: 32, nr_cpu_ids: 1
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07cb000 soft=c07ab000
SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping 08
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
15 years, 7 months
F8 dependency hell with avahi
by Beartooth
I'm running F8 on a T30 thinkpad. Whenever I try to do yum
update, I get :
===== ===== ===== =====
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Check Error:
file /etc/avahi/avahi-autoipd.action from install of avahi-
autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package
avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
file /usr/sbin/avahi-autoipd from install of avahi-
autoipd-0.6.21-8.fc8.i386 conflicts with file from package
avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386
Error Summary
-------------
===== ===== ===== =====
I've tried everything I can think of to update or get rid of that
avahi-0.6.17-1.fc7.i386 with the "fc7" in it, and nothing I know works.
Pirut did claim to have removed it; but yum update still failed the same.
What do I do, while I still can? Yum wants to change 124
packages, including replacing a kernel.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years, 7 months
Fedora vs RedHat
by Kevin Kempter
Hi All;
What's the real differences between Fedora and say RHEL Desktop ?
Specifically I'm considering buying one of the following for my new
dual core laptop w 12G of memory:
Workstation with Standard Subscription
or
Workstation and Multi-OS with Basic Subscription
Thanks in advance...
15 years, 7 months
the proposed super-duper new f10 laptop
by Robert P. J. Day
is there anything i should know about linux compatibility with
the following:
* dell studio 15 laptop
* intel core 2 duo T8100 CPU (2.1GHz/800MHz FSB)
* WUXGA display
* 4GB shared dual channel DDR2 RAM @ 667MHz
* 320GB SATA HD
* 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon 3450 video
* Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy
is there anything on that list that should give me pause
regarding running fedora (or linux in general)? thanks.
rday
15 years, 7 months
best fedora-out-of-the-box pcmcia wifi?
by Matthew Miller
Does anyone have a recommendation for a modern PCMCIA/PC Card wifi card
which just works out of the box with recent Fedora? I can download a
firmware blob if I have to, but extra points for not having to. These days
all new laptops have wireless built in so all the current info I can find
seems focused on that.
--
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
15 years, 7 months